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Addressing the International Conference on the HOPEFOR Initiative in Doha, Qatar today, UN Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos highlighted the need to strengthen civil-military relations at a time when the world is facing greater humanitarian challenges and more and more governments respond to conflicts and...

Nearly 700,000 people still urgently need humanitarian relief, protection and livelihood support in the southern Filipino island of Mindanao, the UN said today.
The warning came as UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Catherine Bragg concluded a five-day visit to the Philippines,...

Widescale violence by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has forced more than 21,000 people to flee their homes in the Central African Republic (CAR), a new OCHA map reveals.
Across Central Africa, including South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), CAR and Uganda, as many as 440,000...

On 31 October 2011, a car bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killed three national UNHCR staff. It was a harrowing reminder that national humanitarian workers – who come from the countries where they deliver assistance, and who constitute more than 90 per cent of aid workers in the field – bear the...